The EPaDel Student Mathematical Papers Prize recognizes an outstanding paper written by an undergraduate student at an institution in our section. Nominations may be submitted by the author or any other person. The papers will be judged over the summer. The winning author(s) will be recognized at the MAA EPaDel Section's following Fall meeting, and will receive a prize of $200.
The deadline to nominate a paper each year is June 15.
Submissions should include a brief abstract, the author's name and address, and the name of a faculty sponsor, and should be emailed as a PDF attachment to Eric Kahn at ekahn@bloomu.edu.
Student Paper Prize Winners
Below is a list of past winners of the student paper prize.
- 2022: Shefali Ramakrishna, Bryn Mawr College
Numerical Methods in Issues of Sustainability
- 2021: Isaac Reiter, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
The VICCard Cipher: Our Contribution to the Field of Playing Card Cryptography
- 2020: Blossom Jeong, Bryn Mawr College
Transverse Unknotting Number and Family Trees
- 2018: Brian Stottler, Elizabethtown College
Improvements to Correlation Attacks Against Stream Ciphers with Nonlinear Combiners
- 2017: Westley Mildenhall, Bryn Mawr College
Chaotic Systems of Geodesics on Surfaces of Revolution
- 2016: E. Simon Williams,
Further Generalizations of Happy Numbers
- 2015: Francis George,
Locally Contractive Maps on Perfect Polish Ultrametric Spaces
- 2014: Madeline Hanson-Colvin,
Everywhere Continuous Nowhere Differentiable Functions
- 2013: Sam Krupa,
Numerical Analysis of Target Enumeration via Euler Characteristic Integrals
- 2012: Kathryn Link Guinea,
Worm Disease (Dracunculiasis): Opening a mathematical can of worms!
- 2011: Theodore J. Yoder,
An Introduction to the Riemann Hypothesis
- 2010: Naomi Hamermesh,
Mathematical modeling of climate change
- 2009: Dmytro Yeroshkin,
New Results in Exponential Families
- 2008: Adam Lizzi,
The Conway-Schneeberger Fifteen Theorem
- 2007: Ben Anderson,
Melodic Progressions with Harmonious Connections
- 2006: Allison Cutler,
Symmetric Mean Inequalities
- 2005: Andrew Baxter,
Combinatorial Properties of Billiards on an Equilateral Triangle
- 2004: Stephen May,
Invariant Probability Measures on the Baker's Map
- 2003: Joel Mohler,
Geodesics on a Conical Drinking Cup with Lid
- 2002: Bobby Kelly,
Mathematics of Musical Rhythm